Disambiguating a phrase in the letters of Malek-o’ Shoara Bahar

In one of his Brotherhood letters to Mojtaba Minavi, the Malek-o' Shoara Bahar maintains that in the first Congress of Iranian Writers, his poetry and that of other comrades in the tradition were ignored in the tumult of the new and weightless style and rhyme of the Tudeh Party and the poetry of Nima and Ravahij and the nonsense of young Tabrizi poets. This article seeks to reveal the Bahar’s intention of the phrase "the nonsense of young Tabrizi poets". This congress was held in 1947 and in that year the Democratic sect was established in Azerbaijan. The Tudeh Party, as the organizer of the congress, had invited three members of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan to the gathering: Seyed Taqi Milani, Ismail Shams and Balash Azaraoglu. Milani recited poems in Persian at this congress. Ismail Shams spoke about Azerbaijani literature and Azraoglu recited poems in Turkish that were apparently warmly applauded by the audience. Bahar took the audience’s support of Azaraoglu's Turkish poems, along with poetry readings by others like Nima and Ravahij as a disrespect to the modernists and the marginalization of literary traditionalism, and laments this in his letter to Minavi. By using the adjective “nonsense”, for young Tabrizi poets, Bahar has expressed his dissatisfaction and opposition towards democratic sect’s political and cultural positions. He has maintained that their performance has been in line with the intentions of congress’s organizers in destroying the national literature of Iran. In this research, an attempt has been made to point out some behind-the-scenes issues in holding the first writers' congress through the library method and data collection. These issues have not been mentioned anywhere so far.